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2008 U.S. National Criterium and Road Champion, Brooke Miller (Team TIBCO/To The Top), is thinking of Europe…and right now her focus is on the upcoming Ronde van Vlaanderen Vrouwen, the Women’s Tour of Flanders. “Tour of Flanders is a huge goal for me,” said Miller of her upcoming European schedule. “It is my favorite race…

Australian Ben Day came out swinging at the San Dimas Stage Race, winning the opening time trial and successfully defending it until the end with the support of his teammates on the Fly V Australia team. We sat down a day after his victory to talk about his and his team’s future, where our conversation…

At the San Dimas Stage, CalGiant Specialized unleashed what Directeur Sportif Anthony Gallino called his “secret weapons” while at training camp earlier this year, Australian Mountain Bike National Champion Sid Taberlay and U23 rider Andrew Talansky. “I had fun, it was good.” said Taberlay who finished second overall at eight seconds from the overall winner…

2009 was quite a special year for Alison Powers. While riding for Team Type 1, she not only won the Women’s Prestige Cycling Series, but also ended the season as the NRC individual winner. The 2009 Women’s Prestige Cycling Series began at the Redlands Bicycle Classic, followed by the Joe Martin Stage race and then…

German National Champion Ina Yoko Teutenberg of the HTC-Columbia Women’s teams hones her form at the California races before tackling the hard one-day races in Europe. Teammate Chloe Hosking is watching and learning.

Same team but new approach this year for François Parisien of the Spidertech powered by Planet Energy team. Instead of putting in race days in South America early on, he “took it easy” training in Palm Springs California. His first race will be the San Dimas Stage Race this weekend. “Last year, at the Tour…

Lisa Hunt, directeur sportif of Team Vera Bradley Foundation makes no bones about it, she wants to win this year. Her stated goals include both the Individual and Team Classifications for the NRC. One way to get victories is via sprints so she she beefed up the speed on the team, bringing on board a pure sprinter along with riders to create a lead out train.

David Veilleux’s goals for this year are set, they include the Amgen Tour of California, followed by the Philadelphia International Championship, the Canadian National Championships and the two Pro Tour races held in Quebec. But the future is a bit murkier for the Kelly Benefit Strategies rider and it all depends how this year unfolds.

Shelley Evans (Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12) went into the Tour of New Zealand looking for some training and left the race with the overall leader’s jersey in her debut UCI stage race. “It went way better than expected. I went into it thinking it would be a great training race for me before Worlds,”…

One of the cornerstones of the bolstered speed for the BISSELL Pro Cycling Team is criterium strongman Kyle Wamsley. “I’ve been very successful in the criteriums but this year I’m going to go for some stage race finishes.” said the 30-year old. Over the past two years, Wamsley won the Cox Charities Cycling Classic, a…

Embarking on its second year as a UCI Continental team, the Kenda Pro Cycling presented by GEARGRINDER team wants to come out swinging right out of the gate. “We need to win races and it’s important that we need to come out, in my opinion the first two or three months, come out and ride…

Sprinter Alex Candelario of the Kelly Benefit Strategies team chats about the impact of the radio ban and leadership. ““I’m really excited about the radio ban personally speaking and professionally speaking.”

“I just had this conversation with the guys, I love this sport, I love all our sponsors and I like what I’m doing right now. “ said Danny Van Haute, Team Director of the Jelly Belly presented by Kenda cycling team, who takes pride in the fact that he has been at the helm of…

On his second year of racing at the Elite level in cyclocross, American Jamey Driscoll racked up two UCI wins, numerous podiums and a top 20 at the UCI World Cyclocross Championships. “I’m pretty darned satisfied especially with how it ended and how consistent, while I was healthy, my European campaign went as well. Not…

Well known as a time trialing and stage racing squad, the BISSELL Pro Cycling team added speed to their roster this year. “Obviously we’ve been very competitive in the past years and we’ve been known as a time-trialing and tour team, we’ve always performed beyond what our expectations were in some of the tours and…

It was no surprise to read that Cadel Evans had signed with another team. Evans was contracted with Silence-Lotto through 2010, yet there were plenty of rumors floating at the end of the 2009 racing season about a possible team change. The surprise was signing with a Pro-Continental team. A team that did not have…

Embarking on its fourth year in the American pro peloton, the Kelly Benefit Strategies team made a conscious decision to strengthen its stage racing team for 2010 with an eye on the future. “Our real goal for this season is that we want to get results at the biggest races that’s why we’ve cranked up…

The last time we talked with Omer Kem, back in September 2009, he like many other professional cyclists was playing the contract game. The 27-year old faced multiple challenges in his quest to find a team including the economic impact to the cycling world, the age rule and also his own personal constraints. Fast forward…

American John Murphy had been looking to make the jump to be able to race the tough one-day races in Europe. The call came last September when the 25-year old signed a two-year contract with the BMC Racing Team and here he is on one of the best Classics team with Alessandro Ballan, Marcus Burghardt,…